The World’s Best National Parks to Visit in 2026: A Continent-Hopping Bucket List

Some trips are about a city, a beach, or a single famous sight. A national-park trip is about something bigger — a landscape a country decided was worth protecting forever. In 2026, with travellers looking for wild places over crowded ones, the world's great…

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The Americas: peaks, geysers and glaciers

Torres del Paine , in Chilean Patagonia, is built around the granite towers of the Cordillera del Paine, rising some 2,500 metres above a landscape of glaciers, lakes and rivers. It shelters guanacos, pumas and Andean condors, and has been a UNESCO World…

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Africa: the great migrations

The Serengeti in northern Tanzania is the stage for the largest overland animal migration on Earth — over 1.5 million wildebeest and about 250,000 zebra circling its grasslands with the rains. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, it is best timed to the…

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Water, rock and rainforest

New Zealand's Fiordland National Park guards the deep glacier-carved fiords of the South Island's southwest — Milford Sound chief among them — along with temperate rainforest and rare birds like the kākāpō and takahē. It is part of Te Wāhipounamu, a World…

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Nepal's two world-class parks — you can trek and safari both

You don't have to fly to Patagonia or Tanzania for a park on this list. Nepal has two of its own, and they sit at opposite ends of the country's astonishing range. Sagarmatha National Park , in the Solukhumbu, protects Mount Everest and the high Khumbu — a…

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